Lay Accuses Enron Taskforce Of “Wave Of Terror”

Law360, New York (December 13, 2005, 12:00 AM EST) -- In what many experts see as an unusual tactic to win public support, former Enron CEO Ken Lay held a press conference to defend himself against fraud charges, accusing the Enron Task Force of submerging him in a “wave of terror.”

“In this trial, apparently unlike most criminal defense cases, defendants are trying to get the truth in, and the prosecutors, the Enron Task Force, are trying to keep it out,” Lay said. “Whether the truth will continue to be submerged by a wave of terror...